it's you and me up against the world, it's you and me

[dysmorphics]

 

 

 

 

I don't need a parachute, baby if I've got you
Baby if I've got you, I don't need a parachute
You're gonna catch me,
You're gonna catch if I fall
( 🎶 )

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[dysmorphics]

Steph's little fingers remained buried in Bucky's hair the entire time it took them to pick out clothes to order. She had intended to multitask, but everything he did on his phone was super interesting, and therefore distracting.

For one, there were so many options. Despite being unable to see color properly, there were so many options that decision paralysis eventually sank in. In the end, price became the determining factor, though she almost refused to choose anything since none of the items were in the price range she was accustomed to. She even said she was just going to transform more of Cap's old clothes into dresses and such, anyway there was a sewing kit in the bedroom that she could use. Money wasn't an issue, but it was still too much for her to stomach.

He solved the problem by choosing whatever she showed some interest in — she'd asked to look closer at several items until she learned what part of the screen showed their price tags — and tilting the screen away from her when it was time to pay. She'd probably have had an asthma attack if she'd seen the fee to expedite the delivery.

"Is it really okay?" she still asked after the order was placed. One of the reasons she never thought he would ever be interested in her, especially on the marriage front, was because she knew she would be a burden financially with her poor health.

[hadagreatpast]

Bucky caught the hand Steph had resting in his hair and pulled it down so he could press a gentle kiss to it. "It's fine, I mean it," he said as he turned to grin at her. "According to the bank statements we were left with--" which he'd looked at a bit further earlier that morning, before Steph woke up and before he began to cook their breakfast, "--we should be covered for a long time. And that's if we don't find ways to make more money."

Because of when they grew up, the two of them should know how to make do with things, and how to budget when needed. But it didn't seem like it was desperately needed any time soon.

Then he thought of something. He picked his phone back up and pulled up their order, then the dress. Bucky could tell she particularly liked that dress, and it had only been a little over $30. "I looked up the, uh... inflation rates-" it just took him a second to think of the word for that. "-a while back, when I was first learning how to use my phone to learn things, and I was so thrown about the price of everything."

He then turned the phone so she could see the dress. "If you saw this for two bucks in a store back during the war, would that have shocked you as much? Cause when I looked into it, I found out that a dollar back then is worth almost twenty bucks now."